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The day anyone can get dna-programmable yeast and a reactor to grow it- big pharma is goone. What a nice woody sort of word.
by louithethrid 9y ago
The day anyone can get dna-programmable yeast and a reactor to grow it- big pharma is goone. What a nice woody sort of word.
- goatlover 9y agoBecause I'm going to trust the kid's medicine down the street with no oversight? Isn't this kind of like the day 3D printers become affordable, mass manufacturing is done?
- blacksmith_tb 9y agoIf 3D printers were not just affordable but infallible, yes. It would be easier to have a bioreactor bubbling away to synthesize your pharmaceuticals than to try and make a lab-in-a-box kit that was equally robust (more like brewing kombucha in your kitchen than Breaking Bad for Dummies), but either way you still need to assay the results...
- goatlover 9y ago> If 3D printers were not just affordable but infallible, yes. Infallible and easy to use. But you still need to buy the raw materials, unless we're talking Star Trek energy-matter conversion, which isn't on the horizon. Otherwise, why would an average consumer think that buying the raw material and feeding it to their 3D printer is that much more convenient than just stopping by Walmart or ordering off Amazon? And would it even be cheaper, since the consumer loses the economy of scale in their individualized production?
- toufka 9y agoYou mean a homebrew kit and some $100 DNA from Twist? https://www.twistbioscience.com/ https://www.twistbioscience.com/ Why not start with spider-silk dresses: https://boltthreads.com/ https://boltthreads.com/